Works

This is a series of woodcuts by Richard Shields with explanatory text by Allan Shields about the key highlights of the peaks and natural features of the Tuolumne Meadows and greater Tuolumne area in and around Yosemite National Park

Mariposa's history is ancient, for its past extends at least 10,000 years, when the First People populated the land, lived in peace with unreconstructed nature, were overtaken by settlers between 1848 and 1850, then were decimated.

Author: Guide to Tuolumne Meadows Trails, 1960, review edition, 1973, (with Herbert Searles) A Bibliography of the Works of F.C.S. Schiller, 1969, (with Richard Shields) Tuolumne Profile: Yosemite, 1967, (novella) The Tragedy of Tenaya, 1974, new version 1992, A Bibliography of Bibliographies in Aesthetics, 1974, (poetry) A Horse in the House, 1985, Mariposa Now and Then, 1993, Tuffy, an Angel Hid in a Cloud, 1994, What Animals Taught Me, 1995, (with Bernice Shields) Into the Valley: A Brief History of Jerseydale Ranch, 1995, (with John Sharsmith) Climb Every Mountain: A Portrait of Carl Sharsmith, 1996, The Spirit of Rin-Tin-Tin, 2001, also numerous poems and articles. Editor: A Yosemite Adventure in 1863, 1992, Wild Bill Neely and the Pagan Brothers' Golden Goat Winery, 1993, The Song of Sonora, 1993, O.S.S.: One Sad Sack—Private Neely Disciplines the Military, 1994, A Yosemite Naturalist's Odyssey, 1994, Wilderness Treks by Foot, Canoe, and Adobe Rocket, and Father's Far-Flung Fables, 1995, Dream Temple and Other Visions, 1997. Public various professional journals.

Membership

Board directors San Diego Symphony. Served with United States Army Air Force, 1942-1945. Member American Society for Aesthetics (trustee), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (honorary).